Thursday, May 17, 2007

...Berardi describes the state of urban territory as striated by new dimensions of panic where the mental and physical environment of the city overlap in an over-saturation of signs “that create a sort of continuous excitation," he writes, "a permanent electrocution, which leads the individual mind as well as the collective mind to a state of collapse.”

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I watched Children of Men last night, a perfect depiction of this dystopic Architecture of panic. It is all Gaza, Beirut,Bahgdad hyper-saturated into the collective imagination. Think of the dust covered zombies streaming away from the fallen towers a la 9/11, the roving gangs of post Katrina New Orleans..